The Property: Appleridge House dates back to 1859 and was built using a mellow red brick, typical of the Severn Valley at the time. For many years it served as a cider house, The Apple Tree Inn, until about 30 years ago when the property was converted and substantially extended to create the comfortable family home we see today. The current owners have continued to enhance the house, most notably by reconfiguring the kitchen and the addition of the orangery, which has created a more open plan style of living more in keeping with modern family life. The accommodation, which is particularly well presented, is arranged over three floors and extends to just over 4000 sq ft in total. The attention to detail and standard of finishing is quite remarkable. The house is entered through a part glazed oak front door which opens into the entrance hall with a lovely limestone floor and from which an elegant staircase with a curving oak handrail rises to the first floor. Off the hallway is a gym/cinema room, utility and a cloakroom. The handmade oak kitchen is of particular note, with granite work surfaces and incorporating a three oven electric Aga with a twin oven electric module, Miele warming plates and dishwasher, a fridge and coffee machine. The kitchen flows through to the orangery, which has a lantern roof and concertina doors opening onto a breakfast terrace, and in turn opens directly into the dining room. There is a walk-in pantry off the dining and a large study/reception room with an oak floor, windows with shutters and a fireplace with shelved alcoves either side. The drawing room is at half landing level and is another excellent sized room with two deep bay windows with lovely views, a carved stone fireplace fitted with a Chesney wood burning stove and glazed double doors which open onto a south-facing sun terrace. On the first floor there are four double bedrooms, a fifth bedroom currently fitted out as a dressing room , a family bathroom, shower room and a wet room with a sauna. The main bedroom suite is on the second floor and comprises a generous double bedroom with windows on two aspects and far reaching views, a dressing room and a bespoke marble shower room.

Gardens and grounds: The house is approached through an electric gate which opens onto a gravelled and granite set drive providing plenty of parking and turning space in front of a double car port. The gardens are a particularly attractive feature of the property and have been divided into a number of different compartments. To the east of the house there is an area of lawn flanked by mature hedges and borders stocked with an abundance of plants, a summer house with a paved patio in front, and directly abutting the house is the breakfast terrace with access into the orangery. Double gates lead under a wisteria clad arbor to a further area of lawn and then a “walled “ garden with rose and cut flower beds contained within ornamental box hedges. Directly behind the house, and with a south-facing aspect, is a further expanse of lawn, which slopes gently down to a sun terrace, with an outside kitchen and pizza oven, and which provides an ideal place for outside entertaining. In all about 1 acre.

Services: Mains water and electricity are connected. Private drainage. Air source heat pump provides heating to the kitchen, dining room and orangery. Oil fired central heating to the rest of the house. Gigaclear superfast broadband is connected.

Local Authority: Stroud District Council.

Directions: GL13 9HQ
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Situation: Appleridge House is quietly located on the edge of the small rural village of Halmore, which is surrounded by land owned by the Berkeley Estate and within a short distance of the historic market town, famed for its castle and which still retains a doctor's surgery, optician, Co-op, primary school, cafés and a church. The nearest pub is The Salmon Inn, which is within walking distance in Wanswell. The nearby towns of Cam and Dursley provide a wider range of amenities, including supermarkets and train stations. Appleridge House is well positioned to take advantage of the A38 and junctions 13 and 14 of the M5 giving access to Gloucester, Cheltenham and the Midlands to the north and Bristol, the M4 interchange and the South West to the South. In addition and close by, there is the world renowned Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge, the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal and the River Severn along which there are beautiful walks.